TOS quotes, culled for my own nefarious purposes - Season 1

[eliyes]

Where No Man Has Gone Before

Gary Mitchell: "Hey, man, I remember you back at the Academy... a stack of books with legs! The first thing I heard from an upperclassman was, 'Watch out for Lieutenant Kirk. In his class, you either think, or sink'."

Dr. Elizabeth Dehner: "There's not a soul on this planet but us?"
Kirk: "Nobody but us chickens, doctor."

Kirk: (to Spock) "Will you try for one minute to feel? At least act like you've got a heart?"

Spock: (to Kirk) "I felt for him, too."


The Corbomite Maneuver

Dr. McCoy: (alone) "If I jumped every time a light came on around here, I'd end up talking to myself."

Spock: "A most interesting game, this... poker."
Kirk: "It does have its advantages over chess."
McCoy: "Love to teach it to you."

Spock: "Has it occurred to you that there's a certain ... inefficiency ... in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about?"
Kirk: "It gives me emotional security."


The Enemy Within

Spock: "And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see here indications that it is his negative side that makes him strong, that his 'evil' side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength."


The Man Trap

Kirk: "It's a mystery, and I don't like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I've got a beauty right now."


The Naked Time

Sulu: "I'll protect you, fair maiden!"
Uhura: "Sorry – neither!"

Spock: (subdues Sulu with a Vulcan neck pinch)
Kirk: "I'd like you to teach me that sometime."
Spock: "Take D’Artagnan here to sickbay."

Kirk: (to the Enterprise) "I'll never lose you. Never."

Kirk: (to Spock, about Rand) "I have a beautiful yeoman! Have you ever noticed her Mr. Spock! You're allowed to notice her! Captain's not permitted...!"


Balance of Terror

Kirk: "I didn't quite catch that remark, Mr. Stiles."
Stiles: "It was nothing, sir."
Kirk: "Repeat it."
Stiles: "I was suggesting that Mr. Spock might be able to decode that transmission."
Kirk: "I assume you're complimenting Mr. Spock on his ability to decode."
Stiles: "I'm not sure, sir."
Kirk: "Well, here's one thing you can be sure of, mister: leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. Do I make myself clear?"
Stiles: "You do, sir."

Romulan Commander: "Danger and I are old companions."
Centurion: "We have seen a hundred campaigns together, and still I do not understand you."
Romulan Commander: "I think you do. No need to tell you what will happen when we return home with proof of the Earthmen's weakness - and we will have proof. The Earth commander will follow; he must. And when he attacks, we will destroy him. Our gift to the homeland – another war."
Centurion: "If we are the stronger, is this not the signal for war?"
Romulan Commander: "Must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way?"
Centurion: "Our portion, Commander . . . is obedience."
Romulan Commander: "Bah– obedience, duty, death and more death; soon, even enough for the Praetor's tastes. Centurion, I find myself wishing for destruction before we can return." (chuckle) "Worry not; like you, I am too well-trained in my duty to permit it."

Kirk: "I wish I were on a long sea voyage somewhere; not too much deck tennis, no frantic dancing – and no responsibility. Why me? I look around that bridge, I see the men waiting for me to make the next move. And Bones – what if I'm wrong?"
McCoy: "Captain..."
Kirk: "No, I don't really expect an answer."
McCoy: "But I've got one; something I seldom say to a... customer, Jim. In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And, in all the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that – and perhaps more – only one of each of us. . . . Don't destroy the one named 'Kirk'."

Romulan Commander: (about Kirk) "He's a sorcerer, that one - he reads the thoughts in my brain!"

Kirk: "We're standing by to beam your survivors aboard our ship. Prepare to abandon your vessel."
Romulan Commander: "No – no, that is not our way. I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend."
Kirk: "What purpose will it serve to die?"
Romulan Commander: "We are creatures of duty, captain. I have lived my life by it. Just... one more duty... to perform." (activates his ship's self-destruct)


Dagger of the Mind

McCoy: "It's hard to believe that a man could die of loneliness."
Kirk: "Not when you've sat in that room."


Miri

Spock: "I am a carrier. Whatever happens, I can't go back to the ship...and I do want to go back to the ship, Captain."

Rand: "Back on the ship I used try to get you to look at my legs... Captain! Look at my legs!"

Rand: "Miri... she really loved you, you know."
Kirk: "I never get involved with older women, Yeoman."


The Conscience of the King

Spock: "Even in this corner of the galaxy, Captain, two plus two equals four. Almost certainly, an attempt will be made to kill you. Why do you invite death?"

McCoy: "What if you decide he is Kodos? What then? Do you play God, carry his head through the corridors in triumph? That won't bring back the dead, Jim!"
Kirk: "No. But they may rest easier."

Lenore: "And this ship: all this power, surging and throbbing. Yet under control. Are you like that, Captain?"

Lenore: "You are like your ship: powerful, but not human. There is no mercy in you."
Kirk: "If he is Kodos, then I've shown him more mercy than he deserves. And if he isn't, then I'll let you off at Benecia with no harm done."
Lenore: "Captain Kirk – who are you to say what harm was done?"
Kirk: "Who do I have to be?"

Kodos' pronouncement (as read by Anton Karidian):
"The revolution... is successful. But survival depends upon drastic measures. Your continued existence is a threat to the order we have restored; your lives mean slow death to the more valued members of the colony. I, therefore, have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered, signed Kodos, governor of Tarsus IV."


The Galileo Seven

Kirk: "You're not going to admit that for the first time in your life, you committed a purely emotional, irrational act?"
Spock: "No, sir."
Kirk: "Mr. Spock – you're a stubborn man."
Spock: "Yes, sir."


The Menagerie (Parts I & II)

Kirk: "Do you know what you're doing? Have you lost your mind?"
Spock: "Captain – Jim, please! Don't stop me – don't let him stop me. It's your career, and Captain Pike's life; you must see the rest of the transmission."
Kirk: (pauses for consideration, then turns to a security guard) "Lock him up."

McCoy: "Mr. Spock is, um, under arrest." (softly, to Spock) "Is confinement to quarters enough?"
Spock: "Adequate, doctor; I'll make no trouble."
McCoy: (to security guard, exasperated) "Well, confine him!"

Kirk: "Even though regulations are explicit, you could have come to me and explained."
Spock: "Ask you to face the death penalty too? No, one of us was enough."


Shore Leave

Sulu: "The captain has to come down. He'd like it."
McCoy: "He needs it. You've got your problems. I've got mine. He's got ours plus his plus 430 other people."

Spock: "I picked this up from Dr. McCoy's log. We have a crew member on board who is showing signs of stress and fatigue. Reaction time down 9 to 12 percent. Associational reading Norm 3."
Kirk: "That's much too low a rating."
Spock: "He's becoming irritable and quarrelsome, but he refuses to take rest or rehabilitation. Now, he has that right, but we've found..."
Kirk: "That crewman's right ends where the safety of the ship begins. Now, that man will go ashore on my orders. What's his name?"
Spock: "James Kirk. Enjoy yourself, Captain."

Sulu: "Captain, I'm being chased by a Samurai!"

Kirk: "You follow the rabbit. I'll backtrack the girl. I'll meet you round the other side of the hill."
McCoy: "Good. I got a personal grudge against that rabbit, Jim."

Spock: "On my planet to rest is to rest. To cease using energy. To me it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy instead of saving it."

McCoy: "A princess shouldn't be afraid – not with a brave knight to protect her."

Spock: "Did you enjoy that, captain?"
Kirk: "Yes I did. I did enjoy it! After all these years, all I wanted to do was beat the tar out of Finnegan."

Kirk: "This is turning out to be one very unusual shore leave."
McCoy: "It could have been worse."
Kirk: "How?"
McCoy: "You could have seen the rabbit."


The Squire of Gothos

Spock: "I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose."

McCoy: "Ah, there's that magic word again... tell me, Mr. Spock, does your 'logic' find this 'fascinating'?"
Spock: "No, 'fascinating' is a word I use for the unexpected; in this case, I think 'interesting' should suffice."


The Alternative Factor

McCoy: "He's in a great deal of pain!"
Kirk: "Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure, I'm sure you know that, Doctor!"


Tomorrow is Yesterday

Colonel Fellini: "I am going to lock you up for 200 years..."
Kirk: (trapped 200 years in the past) "That ought to be ... just about right..."


A Taste of Armageddon

Spock: (to a guard) "Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." (nerve pinch)

Spock: "Yeoman Tamura; you will stay here and prevent this young woman from immolating herself. Knock her down and sit on her if you have to."

Spock: "Ladies and gentlemen, please move quickly away from the chamber or you may be injured."
Ambassador Fox: "What are you doing, Mr Spock?"
Spock: "Practicing a peculiar variety of diplomacy, sir." (destroys the disintegration booth with a phaser blast)

Spock: "Captain, you almost make me believe in luck."
Kirk: "Why, Mr. Spock – you almost make me believe in miracles."


Space Seed

Spock: "I can’t understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong."
Kirk: "An emotional Earth weakness of mine."

Kirk: (re: Khan) "Mister Spock, you misunderstand us. We can be against him and admire him all at the same time."
Spock: "Illogical."
Kirk: "Totally."


The Side of Paradise

Kirk: "Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

Kirk: "No... No... I - can't - LEAVE!" (throws off the effects of the spores when they try to get him to abandon the Enterprise)

Captain's log, stardate 3417.7. Except for myself, all crew personnel have transported to the surface of the planet, mutinied. Lieutenant Uhura has effectively sabotaged the communications station. I can only contact the surface of the planet. The ship can be maintained in orbit for several months, but even with automatic controls, I cannot pilot her alone. In effect, I am marooned here. I'm beginning to realize... just how big this ship really is. How quiet. I don't know how to get my crew back, how to counteract the effect of the spores. I don't know what I can offer against... paradise.

Captain's log, supplemental. I think I've discovered the answer. But to carry out my plan entails considerable risk. Mr. Spock is much stronger than the ordinary Human being. Aroused, his great physical strength could kill. But it's a risk I'll have to take.

Kirk: "All right you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed, we'll see about you deserting my ship."
Spock: "The term 'half-breed' is somewhat applicable, but 'computerized' is inaccurate. A machine can be computerized, not a man."
Kirk: "What makes you think you're a man? You're an overgrown jack rabbit, an elf with a hyperactive thyroid."
Spock: "Jim, I don't understand..."
Kirk:"Of course you don't understand. You don't have the brains to understand. All you have are printed circuits."
Spock: "Captain, if you'll excuse me."
Kirk: "What can you expect from a simpering, devil-eared freak, whose father was a computer and whose mother was an encyclopedia?"
Spock: "My mother was a teacher, my father an ambassador."
Kirk: "Your father was a computer, like his son. An ambassador from a planet of traitors. The Vulcan never lived who had an ounce of integrity."
Spock: "Captain, please don't."
Kirk: "You're a traitor from a race of traitors, disloyal to the core, rotten like the rest of your sub-Human race – and you've got the gall to make love to that girl."
Spock: "That's enough!"
Kirk: "Does she know what she's getting, Spock? A carcass full of memory banks who should be squatting on a mushroom instead of passing himself off as a man! You belong in a circus, Spock, not a starship – right next to the dog-faced boy!"

Kirk: "Had enough? I never realized what it took to get under that thick hide of yours. Anyhow, I don't know what you're so mad about – it isn't every first officer who gets to belt his captain... several times."

Spock: "Captain, striking a fellow officer is a court-martial offense."
Kirk: "Well, if we're both in the brig, who's going to build the subsonic transmitter?"
Spock: (considers) "That is quite logical, captain."

Leila Kalomi: "You never told me if you have another name, Mr. Spock."
Spock: "You couldn't pronounce it."

Elias Sandoval: "We don't need you any more – as a doctor."
McCoy: "Oh no? Would you like to see just how fast I can put you in a hospital?"

Kirk: "Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through – struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums."

Spock: "... for the first time in my life, I was happy."


The Devil in the Dark

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"
Kirk: "You're a healer, there's a patient – that's an order."

McCoy: "By golly, Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"

Spock: "Really, sir, my modesty –"
Kirk: "Does not bear close examination, Mr. Spock; I suspect you're becoming more and more Human all the time."
Spock: "You – sir, I see no reason to stand here and be insulted."


The City at the Edge of Forever

The Guardian: "A question. Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question."
Kirk: "What are you?"
The Guardian: "I am the Guardian of Forever."
Kirk: "Are you machine or being?"
The Guardian: "I am both and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending."
Spock: "I see no reason for answers to be couched in riddles."
The Guardian: "I answer as simply as your level of understanding makes possible."

Spock: "A time portal, Captain--a gateway to other times and dimensions, if I'm correct."
The Guardian: "As correct as possible for you. Your science knowledge is obviously primitive."
Spock: "Really?"
Kirk: "Annoyed, Spock?"

Edith Keeler: "I still have a few questions I'd like to ask about you two. Oh, and don't give me that 'questions about little old us?' look. You know how out of place you are around here."
Spock: "Interesting. Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?"
Edith Keeler: "You? At his side, as if you've always been there and always will." (to Jim) "And you... you belong... in another place. I don't know where or how. I'll figure it out eventually."
Spock: "I'm finished with the furnace."
Edith Keeler: "'Captain.' Even when he doesn't say it, he does."

Kirk: "Yes, well, it would pose an extremely complex problem in logic, Mr. Spock. Excuse me. I sometimes expect too much of you."

Kirk: "You were actually enjoying my predicament back there. At times, you seem quite human."
Spock: "Captain, I hardly believe that insults are within your prerogative as my commanding officer."
Kirk: "Sorry."

Edith Keeler: "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for! One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energy -- maybe even the atom. Energy that could ultimately hurl men to other worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world, and to cure their diseases. They'll be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for."

Edith Keeler: "I think they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war and death..."
Kirk: "And make them spend it on life."

Kirk: "Spock... I believe... I'm in love with Edith Keeler."
Spock: "Jim, Edith Keeler must die."

McCoy: "You! What planet is this?"

Kirk: (stops McCoy from saving Edith from being hit by a truck and killed)
McCoy: "You deliberately stopped me! I could have saved her! Do you know what you just did?!"
Spock: "He knows, doctor... he knows."

The Guardian: "Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before. Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway."

Kirk: "Let's get the hell out of here."


Operation: Annihilate!

McCoy: (whispering to Kirk) "Please don't tell Spock that I said he's the best first officer in the fleet."
Spock: "Why thank you, Doctor."
Kirk: "You were so concerned about his Vulcan eyes, Doctor, you forgot about his Vulcan ears."

Comments

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

Oh God, Uhura is my queen! "Sorry, neither!" :D

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Uhura rocks. :D